Houston Matters

A Long Walk Home: Writer Walks from Galveston to Marfa

There are a lot of transplants in Houston as of late. And in general these days people donât often tend to stay in one place for long.Â So the decision to settle down for good â and choosing where â can be a weighty one. Such was the case for Texas writer Joshua Edwards who took […]

There are a lot of transplants in Houston as of late. And in general these days people donât often tend to stay in one place for long.Â So the decision to settle down for good â and choosing where â can be a weighty one.

Such was the case for Texas writer Joshua Edwards who took to a fairly extreme measure to mark such an occasion in his life. Houston Mattersâ Michael Hagerty explains how Edwards walked some 600 miles from Kemah — on Galveston Island — to the plot of land in Marfa, Texas, where he and his wife plan to build a house.